Need help installing passsword protection

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From: Brian K. W. Hook
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1991 00:06

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I want to install a rudimentary password protection program on my computer
system.  It currently resides as the firstline of my AUTOEXEC.BAT file,
unfortunaetly this can be circumvented via repeated hitting of Ctrl-C on
boot up.

What I would like to do is install it as a device driver in my CONFIG.SYS
file.  I have tried, naively, just using:

DEVICE=C:\PASS.EXE

The program works, however, it bombs on exit.

I tried using SHELL=C:\PASS.EXE and then using an execv() call to
COMMAND.COM to start it as the real command interpreter, but that bombs
too.

I am using Turbo C (BC++ 2.00).  If anyone has some pointers, please fling
em my way please.

Brian

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